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Show HN: Perspective for Men

by paul_cryer on 8/11/11, 1:19 PM with 44 comments

  • by scrrr on 8/11/11, 2:07 PM

    The advice that men get when asking women about romance is often pretty much useless and will do more harm than good. It would be way more useful to ask men that have their stuff together and know what they are talking about. Besides, every man has female friends to ask. So, sadly, I don't think this is a good business idea at all.

  • by forbes on 8/11/11, 2:00 PM

    I'm a programmer and this site looks like it was designed by a programmer. If you are serious about this idea, spend some money and pay a designer to make it prettier. I think this is the kind of site that needs an appealing design.

    In particular, the bottom section with the 'guarantee' and the logos of 'buzz' sites looks like one of those dodgy software download sites with the fake awards and testimonials.

    Also, I would want to see some samples of Questions & Answers before I handed over my cash. Have a question of the day or something so people can get a feel of the quality of your responses (if you have any yet).

  • by JoeAltmaier on 8/11/11, 2:25 PM

    Neat idea. I tried it.

    Long drawnout payment maze, used paypal, double-billed and my transaction history shows 3 entries - don't have any idea what any of them mean. No big deal, its just $2 but weird.

    Some one-click payment approach would be nice.

    How do I get a response? Email? Poll the site? No clue anywhere in the process that I noticed anyway.

    Good luck!

  • by rnernento on 8/11/11, 2:09 PM

    Maybe I'm way off but I don't see people paying the kind of money your asking for this. What's the advantage over Yahoo Answers or Quora?

    There are girls on those sites as well, there are also plenty of forums for specific questions with male and female members.

    How are you verifying gender?

    Best of luck either way, what do I know, I thought Twitter would never take off...

    As far as constructive criticism:

    The site seems fast and functional which is great. I think the logo could be improved and the pink / maroon color and gold / brown text colors could be adjusted.

  • by paul_cryer on 8/11/11, 1:19 PM

    We have all been through various phases in life where some sort of female perspective would have helped out a lot. HelpAGuyOut.com lets guys ask question and get advice from women on dating, relationship, love, life, almost anything. We are charging $2 for a question and passing $1/answer to the ladies who respond to the question. The monetory factor helps prevent spammy answers while making everyone's time worthawhile. Furthermore, 100% money back guarantee allows the asker to get a refund for any response that he/she deems unsatisfactory.

    Thank you for your feedback.

    -Paul

  • by michael_dorfman on 8/11/11, 2:01 PM

    Some sample questions and answers would help.

    Maybe I'm lacking imagination, but I'm not exactly sure what I would ask the ladies, or what kind of answers they could give.

  • by wallflower on 8/11/11, 1:45 PM

    My first thought was the site did not look girly (not to be sexist but no pastels)

    Are you competing with http://www.girlsaskguys.com/ ?

  • by frobozz on 8/11/11, 2:15 PM

    $1 seems like a frightfully trivial amount of money to receive for a well-considered answer.

    See: "Pay enough, or don't pay at all."

    http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/05/pay-enoug...

  • by ljlolel on 8/11/11, 4:00 PM

    You want to get some SEO traffic and linking going on. After the guy says he's satisfied with an answer, ask him if he wants to make the answer public for others to benefit from. (You can also offer for it to be edited to take out any extra detail)

  • by Ixiaus on 8/11/11, 3:31 PM

    Women giving advice [to men] is not a good thing - women only have a "feeling" based notion of what they want (feelings are intangible and subjective).

    In addition to all of the PUA/seduction stuff, theres one simple "technique" I've learned: have fun, fun is infectious (particularly with women) and when women are having fun they get horny and they also start to "feel" something for the fellow that is their source of fun! Fun is light and not weighed down by the dependency for an archetypal mother projection (needy and "smothering" guys, that's you).

    Fun feels so good - women love to feel good. If you happen to be the person she's with when she's feeling even slightly above her baseline "good" she will associate it with you, and if you can keep your cool and "play" with her a little bit (ya know, don't be so easy to catch) she will fall head over heels for you.

  • by araneae on 8/11/11, 3:33 PM

    To whoever asked "What do you think about this site? http://news.ycombinator.com you are probably going to get a lot of women answering that question that read HN already. FYI.

  • by epaga on 8/11/11, 2:07 PM

    Sorry if this is answered somewhere, but I didn't see it in the FAQ: how do you prevent guys from signing up as girls? I.e. how do you guarantee this is really female advice?

  • by andy_boot on 8/11/11, 3:39 PM

    I wrote something similar as an experiment a year or so ago: http://www.how-they-think.com/

    except its free

  • by edu on 8/11/11, 4:27 PM

    Why would a I pay $2 to a website when for more or less the same I can invite a female friend to a coffee and talk about the issue as long as it's necessary?

  • by jimwise on 8/12/11, 10:29 PM

    There's a Mr. Turing here to see you about whether this site is really connecting him to a lady, sir.

  • by kamakazizuru on 8/11/11, 4:36 PM

    and what's the guarantee that it's actually a woman answering and not some greedy male who put up a female facebook profile?